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An R Package for Text Analysis
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Flesch Formula multiplier #38

Closed miezmiuremiezutschi closed 9 months ago

miezmiuremiezutschi commented 1 year ago

I noticed that the multiplier of the average syllable length in the Documentation of koRpus (page 25 and 87) is 84.6. On Wikipedia and in the original 1948 paper by Flesch it was 85.6.

unDocUMeantIt commented 1 year ago

can you please be more specific regarding your sources? my copy of "a new readability yardstick" (flesch, 1948) contains 84.6, as does the english and german wikipedia on the reading ease formula.